New Zealand Writers
HORROCKS, Ingrid
A writer interested in testing the way in which place alters the kinds of worlds we are able to imagine.
HORROCKS, Ingrid (1975- )
Ingrid Horrocks was born in Hamilton, and lived in Auckland and the Wairarapa before moving to Wellington where she completed a BA Hons in English at Victoria University of Wellington. Horrocks then went to the University of York, England, where she completed an MA in Eighteenth Century Studies. In 2001 Horrocks left New Zealand to work on a doctorate in English Literature at Princeton University.
Horrocks has published two books, both of which deal with what Horrocks calls ‘the possibilities of travel writing and memoir.’ The first is a collection of poems, Natsukashii (Pemmican Press, 1998) and the second is an unconventional travel book, Travelling with Augusta, 1883 & 1999 (VUP, 2003).
Writing in the New Zealand Listener, Bill Direen called Natsukashii ‘astounding’ and Horrocks ‘a wonderful new talent’. A sentiment echoed by John Allison in New Zealand Books who called the collection an ‘exquisitely evoked memoire of a trip to Japan’.
In a review of Travelling with Augusta in the Otago Daily Times, Elizabeth Isichei calls Horrocks ‘one of several young New Zealanders who excel both in academic research and creative writing’. Diana Balham in the New Zealand Listener says that, ‘Horrocks writes beautifully and simply. She is not only a keen observer, but also that most fortunate of travellers – someone that things happen to.’
Horrocks has also published poetry and short fiction in Landfall, Sport, NZ Books, and JAAM. Her work has also been anthologised in Mutes and Earthquakes (VUP, 1997) and New Zealand Writing: The NeXt Wave (University of Otago Press, 1998).
Ingrid Horrocks currently lives in the United States.
(LK)
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